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especially susceptible. The resident doctor and nurse give us valuable assistance. The training which many of our girls receive at our hospital serves to make this work more practical.

Agriculture

Our nature study in the lower grades is really a phase of the study of agriculture and prepares the pupil to understand the relation of moisture to soil. By simple experiments in window boxes and on the school farms and garden they learn how and when to plant seeds, and watch with interest the germination and growth of these seeds into plants. Our small boys plant the onions and other garden crops, pull the weeds, and help to cultivate the crops and harvest them. Each student spends from two to four summers in the country on a small farm. They work with the farmer and get a more practical knowledge than any school course can give them in all the details of work of each season in the school rooms. In addition a Course in Agriculture extends through all the grades.

EQUIPMENT

Connected with the school are two farms of 285 acres which are adapted to the cultivation of farm crops, vegetables, fruits, etc. One adjacent to the campus, is annually planted to garden vegetables, potatoes, forage crops, etc. On it is, also a young orchard of peaches, pear, cherry and apple with brush and bramble fruits included. The other farm is used for farm crops proper. Corn, wheat, timothy, clover, alfalfa, oats and millet are grown as required by the rotations practiced. All work is performed by student labor.

A dairy of about 90 cows furnishes milk for the school and is used for practical demonstration work. It is equipped with a Sharples' Tubular Separator. Box churn operated by a gasoline engine, Babcock Test,

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silo, feed cutter, etc. The herd contains good individual cows of the Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein-Fresian and Durham breeds and a fine registered Jersey bull, thus affording excellent means for the study of breeds and stock judging.

A piggery, 120 feet in length, well lighted, ventilated and provided with sanitary equipments, is in use. Pens are provided for breeding purposes, brood sows, and for fattening hogs, affording excellent opportunity to study breeding, care and management of swine.

The poultry department is equipped with three hen houses provided with scratching floors, nests, etc., and a brooder house with incubator room and three incubators. All equipment is new and of the latest plan and type. The flock at present consists of 1,200 birds.

The school is provided with a greenhouse in which are grown plants for beautifying the campus and in which the students have an excellent opportunity to study plant propagation. All work in the dairy, piggery, poultry-yard and greenhouse is performed by the students directed by the employe in charge.

Steps have been taken to establish a museum in which specimens of agricultural products, including farm crops, garden crops, wool from the different breeds of sheep, insects, both beneficial and injurious, showing life history will be exhibited. Samples of different commercial fertilizers, grains, seeds, feeds, etc., will also be given space. Ears of corn, heads of wheat, etc., showing desirable and undesirable types will be given special prominence. Samples of the products of different reservations will be obtained.

PURPOSE- The purpose of the course is to create a desire for knowledge at first hand, to inspire self confidence and to instil in the Indian mind the immense and practical importance of agricultural pursuits. By use of simple experiments in the class room and laboratory, by frequent visits to farm, garden, dairy,